At least in the Land of the Free we don't kill protesters. We just pepper spray them, beat them senseless, and arrest them only to let them go 24 hours later without charges.
Don't try to make it out like I tried to make this political.
I didn't try to make out like you made it politic. I did however try to point out that you were rejecting his suggestion based on your own political beliefs and hiding it that fact under the guise of "they aren't as needy". Also you lied about its ability to accept tax-deductible donations. You need to learn to accept when you're wrong instead of going on the offense.
It was slow for me too immediately following the update. Its seems to have vastly improved since then, and is slightly faster than 2.3.6. Maybe it was running some background tasks related to the update.
Oh how I wish I had mod points to put you into oblivion. You consistently post the most ignorant comments. Anyone that's been reading slashdot for more than a week knows you are just some Apple fanboi that's butthurt because Android is winning and your shiny little toy isn't doing so well anymore.
How do I sign up to be a Youtube "rights holder". Going to register everything as mine and collect all the ad revenue. UMG here I come!
Universal said Google’s private system doesn’t count as an official takedown notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and thus it was immune from legal liability.
So I can use Google's system to claim ownership of all your content and you can't sue me?? Dangerous position you take there.
1. If someone believes in their cause, but lacks the availability to participate themselves, donating is a very good way to support them. Just because *you* personally don't believe in their cause does not mean no-one else does. Most likely you misunderstand their motives; I would suggest you read/watch something other than the (corporate) main-stream media.
2. OWS applied for 501(c)(3) since October, and accepts tax-deductible donations.
Limiting government too much just give the businesses more power.
I strongly suggest you take a look at all of the major legislation that has been written in the past 30 years. None of it is *for the people*. All of it is *for the corporations*.
Why do you think the Insurance and Pharmaceutics industries were so thrilled about Obama Care, yet none of the actual citizenry did?
Wall Street actually liked Dodd Frank.
DMCA?
Free Trade? (Hint: it turns people into commodities)
Immigration policy? (used to protect the availability of cheap labor in Mexico not your job here)
The drug war?
Small central governments, larger local governments. Social programs, if so desired, can be enacted (also more efficiently) locally.
If you restrict the power of central governments, you will restrict the ability of the wealthy to seize control.
So what you're saying is because you can't multitask, there needs to be a law stopping me from doing so.
Only about 1% of the population can fly an airplane, I guess we need a law saying no-one is allowed to fly airplanes.
The free as in "speech" I refer to is not the open source nature of it (parts are actually not), but rather the freedom for a manufacturer to actually use it on their hardware. Windows understood this in the 80s, hence why they won. Apple has never understood this, hence why they lost the desktop OS war and they will most surely lose this one.
Apple does not have much of a chance in the corporate sector. They have had a desktop OS for 30 years that has had almost 0 penetration into that sector, simply because they do not understand that sector and that is not what their products are designed for. Corporations and business people want software that can actually get stuff done, not just the shiny toy of the week that Apple puts out.
You can always change to a corporate marketplace. Never say never, if Google wants a piece of that pie, there are ways to get it. I don't exactly see iOS taking over the corporate sector anytime soon either. Even solely given the history of desktop OSs, which 2 OS's do you find in corporations? Windows and Linux. Which do you not find? Apple. They simply do not make a good enough OS for any company to seriously invest in.
Its not about consumers downloading their OS source. Can you download the Windows source code? No, but it still won the OS war because it could run on any hardware. This commoditized that hardware, and significantly reduced the cost of Windows machines vs Macs.
So your statement "Most people buy it because the device is at a better pricepoint than the iPhone or has features/formfactor that they want." is very relevant, but it is only relevant because Android is free as in "speech" - because any manufacturer can use it, increasing competition, reducing the price, and allowing better market segmentation.
Apple has the same approach to their OSs today as they did in the 80s. I wish them luck, but I wouldn't bet on that strategy working this time when it failed 30 years ago.
You're generalizing. To attempt to extrapolate which group spends more time on their OS based upon your install experience of some lesser-known 3rd party app is ludicrous.
Also, everyone does not "keep copying Apple". You're fan-boy worship of them is disgusting.
Ya there's also the fact that them being able to quote your IP address off a list is in no way proof that you committed a crime. The "we have your IP" is still just their word against yours. Given their past shady conduct, there is no reason to believe that these people wouldn't falsify evidence.
Still, downloading 50GB will take 1/2 my cap for the month. If I download 2 games, every game over that will cost me $50 just in service fees to my ISP.
To fix their grievances properly there's about 20 laws that need to be enacted, constitutional amendments, and 30 years of the corportization of the government to be undone. IMO these these cannot be done just with a demand - you need to change the culture. You need to educate others.. If you can get enough people in the country to believe in your message, you can get anything you want.
Except for the fact that you come to me on a daily basis and intentionally and willingly disclose this information to me, after I warned you in my EULA that I reserve the right to do exactly that.
Should people think twice before they post every stupid detail of their lives on Facebook? Yes
Should it be illegal for Facebook to do what they do? No.
No, it shouldn't be illegal. What is it with so many people thinking the government should make 1000s of laws to make stuff illegal just to protect stupid people from themselves?
If they commit fraud, they can be charged. If they agree not to sell your information and they do, you can sue. If you agree to give them your information, they can do with it as they like. Why does the government need to get involved to protect you from your own stupidity of signing all your rights away in a EULA? If you don't like Facebook then don't use them and stop appealing to the government to get involved in your own personal hate fest against them.
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At least in the Land of the Free we don't kill protesters. We just pepper spray them, beat them senseless, and arrest them only to let them go 24 hours later without charges.
America's dead. Long live America.
With their gazillion versions they can never claim the dubious prize of having "highest market share split by version".
On the one hand I'm thinking way to go Chrome, on the other... wtf is the point?
That's because you're an idiot.
Don't try to make it out like I tried to make this political.
I didn't try to make out like you made it politic. I did however try to point out that you were rejecting his suggestion based on your own political beliefs and hiding it that fact under the guise of "they aren't as needy". Also you lied about its ability to accept tax-deductible donations. You need to learn to accept when you're wrong instead of going on the offense.
It was slow for me too immediately following the update. Its seems to have vastly improved since then, and is slightly faster than 2.3.6. Maybe it was running some background tasks related to the update.
I just installed it 30 mins ago.
Not really a fan of all the blue instead of green. Anyone know a way to change that?
Oh how I wish I had mod points to put you into oblivion. You consistently post the most ignorant comments. Anyone that's been reading slashdot for more than a week knows you are just some Apple fanboi that's butthurt because Android is winning and your shiny little toy isn't doing so well anymore.
Universal said Google’s private system doesn’t count as an official takedown notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and thus it was immune from legal liability.
So I can use Google's system to claim ownership of all your content and you can't sue me?? Dangerous position you take there.
1. If someone believes in their cause, but lacks the availability to participate themselves, donating is a very good way to support them. Just because *you* personally don't believe in their cause does not mean no-one else does. Most likely you misunderstand their motives; I would suggest you read/watch something other than the (corporate) main-stream media.
2. OWS applied for 501(c)(3) since October, and accepts tax-deductible donations.
Or the Ministry of Truth back home in the good ol' U.SofA a.k.a the 6 media conglomerates.
Limiting government too much just give the businesses more power.
I strongly suggest you take a look at all of the major legislation that has been written in the past 30 years. None of it is *for the people*. All of it is *for the corporations*.
Why do you think the Insurance and Pharmaceutics industries were so thrilled about Obama Care, yet none of the actual citizenry did?
Wall Street actually liked Dodd Frank.
DMCA?
Free Trade? (Hint: it turns people into commodities)
Immigration policy? (used to protect the availability of cheap labor in Mexico not your job here)
The drug war?
Small central governments, larger local governments. Social programs, if so desired, can be enacted (also more efficiently) locally.
If you restrict the power of central governments, you will restrict the ability of the wealthy to seize control.
Yes, except they categorically do not have a nuclear weapons program.
So what you're saying is because you can't multitask, there needs to be a law stopping me from doing so.
Only about 1% of the population can fly an airplane, I guess we need a law saying no-one is allowed to fly airplanes.
The free as in "speech" I refer to is not the open source nature of it (parts are actually not), but rather the freedom for a manufacturer to actually use it on their hardware. Windows understood this in the 80s, hence why they won. Apple has never understood this, hence why they lost the desktop OS war and they will most surely lose this one.
Apple does not have much of a chance in the corporate sector. They have had a desktop OS for 30 years that has had almost 0 penetration into that sector, simply because they do not understand that sector and that is not what their products are designed for. Corporations and business people want software that can actually get stuff done, not just the shiny toy of the week that Apple puts out.
the corporate sector will never adopt Android
You can always change to a corporate marketplace. Never say never, if Google wants a piece of that pie, there are ways to get it. I don't exactly see iOS taking over the corporate sector anytime soon either. Even solely given the history of desktop OSs, which 2 OS's do you find in corporations? Windows and Linux. Which do you not find? Apple. They simply do not make a good enough OS for any company to seriously invest in.
I like pie.
Mod this up
Its not about consumers downloading their OS source. Can you download the Windows source code? No, but it still won the OS war because it could run on any hardware. This commoditized that hardware, and significantly reduced the cost of Windows machines vs Macs.
So your statement "Most people buy it because the device is at a better pricepoint than the iPhone or has features/formfactor that they want." is very relevant, but it is only relevant because Android is free as in "speech" - because any manufacturer can use it, increasing competition, reducing the price, and allowing better market segmentation.
Apple has the same approach to their OSs today as they did in the 80s. I wish them luck, but I wouldn't bet on that strategy working this time when it failed 30 years ago.
You're generalizing. To attempt to extrapolate which group spends more time on their OS based upon your install experience of some lesser-known 3rd party app is ludicrous.
Also, everyone does not "keep copying Apple". You're fan-boy worship of them is disgusting.
Ya there's also the fact that them being able to quote your IP address off a list is in no way proof that you committed a crime.
The "we have your IP" is still just their word against yours. Given their past shady conduct, there is no reason to believe that these people wouldn't falsify evidence.
Still, downloading 50GB will take 1/2 my cap for the month. If I download 2 games, every game over that will cost me $50 just in service fees to my ISP.
To fix their grievances properly there's about 20 laws that need to be enacted, constitutional amendments, and 30 years of the corportization of the government to be undone. IMO these these cannot be done just with a demand - you need to change the culture. You need to educate others.. If you can get enough people in the country to believe in your message, you can get anything you want.
Except for the fact that you come to me on a daily basis and intentionally and willingly disclose this information to me, after I warned you in my EULA that I reserve the right to do exactly that.
Should people think twice before they post every stupid detail of their lives on Facebook? Yes
Should it be illegal for Facebook to do what they do? No.
No, it shouldn't be illegal. What is it with so many people thinking the government should make 1000s of laws to make stuff illegal just to protect stupid people from themselves?
If they commit fraud, they can be charged. If they agree not to sell your information and they do, you can sue. If you agree to give them your information, they can do with it as they like. Why does the government need to get involved to protect you from your own stupidity of signing all your rights away in a EULA? If you don't like Facebook then don't use them and stop appealing to the government to get involved in your own personal hate fest against them.
+5 Funny, should be +5 Insightful if you ask me